Quality of life patients with anorectal disorders

Abstract

Nowadays, assessment of treatments effectiveness carried out by different methods. About 20 years before due to clinical signs we can make a decision about the severity degree of disease, patients health status. However, now it is not enough. The most important lack of this approach is that in this situation patient’s opinion is neglected. Development of medicine, changing of relationship between patients and doctors give birth to a new direction: unilateral approach replaced by mutual cooperation both of sides. Until the last decades of XX century all treatment results, both conservative and surgical, were evaluated due to the clinical, laboratory and instrumental investigations. As officials defined by the World Health Organization, health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing [6]. So, during the patient’s conditions assessment all these parameters should investigate. Firstly, Errington in 1966 gave an idea about using quality of life for the describing disease effects. Officials this terming in medicine was established in 1977 [3]. Since that time “Quality of life” used widely in the medicine. Today this is one of the common, convenient and informative methods, which allow physicians assess the patient’s status by following the main rule of medicine- to treat the patient, not the disease [2,4,5]. Its advantages are: Comprehensiveness - it covers all aspects of health Dynamism- allow to monitoring patients status Patients participation- this is the main benefit.